March 2009
11 posts
WatchTwouble with Twitters
1 PHOTO. 3 WORDS. 365 DAYS... →
Photographer Peter Bruce finds a person on the street that he doesn’t know, snaps their photo, and asks them for three words that describe how they are feeling at that moment.
“Night the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive.”
– ― Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Buzz On Beans →
The Bay Area has long been a center of coffee culture. Tara Duggan looks at our love of the bean from the grounds up.
The Old Pond Haiku
Furuike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto — Matsuo Basho
Translated by Fumiko Saisho
The old pond— a frog jumps in, sound of water.
Book Recommendation...
My Life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud’homme
“[A] delightful and ebulliently written new memoir….The result is a tone that is pure Julia. One can almost hear her unforgettably fluty voice uttering such Julia-isms as ‘ta-da!’ ‘ouf!’ and ‘phooey!’ throughout the book. Her joy just about jumps off the book’s pages….Julia...
